Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 2 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 3 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 5 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
| 6 | So okay I have n't seen I must have a tiny little book . |
| 7 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 8 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
| 9 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
| 10 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that . |
| 12 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
| 14 | Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er |
| 15 | Went back yesterday , tomorrow I 'll carry on , Thursday I might have a lay in |
| 16 | I might have a sweet actually . |
| 17 | And I might have a little bit . |
| 18 | If things do n't get better soon , I 'll have a nervous breakdown or divorce my husband . |
| 19 | I 'll have a tiny bit . |
| 20 | I 'll have a tiny bit |
| 21 | I find I 've got to make excuses for myself if I do n't , but I sort of think I 've got this to do for the children , and that to do — and I 'll have a grand old clean up next week , sort of thing . |
| 22 | I 'll have a small cafe with you . |
| 23 | No , I 'll have a small orange juice please . |
| 24 | I 'll have a temporary job |
| 25 | I 'll have a temporary job |
| 26 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 27 | ‘ One will do fine for his dallta , Lachlan , but I 'll have a new one made for your heir . |
| 28 | no no I think I 'll have a new one , that 's got very thin |
| 29 | Well I 'll have a new book now when I go , right , and you can have my old one . |
| 30 | So I thought I 'll have a new carpet in my hall . |